Features and Benefits

The most cited text in The College Board's AP* statistics sample syllabi.

Award-winning author team.

Applauded for its readability—your students will read this book!

Leads with practical data analysis and graphics, encouraging students to "do statistics" and "think statistically" from the start.

Updated data used in examples and exercises.

Practice Exams. At the end of each of the book’s seven parts you’ll find a practice exam, consisting of both multiple-choice and free-response questions. These cumulative exams encourage students to keep important concepts and skills in mind throughout the course while helping them synthesize their understanding as they build connections

among the various topics.

Video Lectures for each chapter of the text show the authors delivering a 7-10 minute review of the important points of the chapter. Instructors then show students how to solve statistics problems by carefully working through an example from the text using the authors' hallmark Think/Show/Tell problem-solving method.

What Have We Learned? Revised chapter-ending study guides to better help students review the key concepts and terms.

Updated examples, exercises, and data. The innovative Think/Show/Tell Step-by-Step examples are updated with new contexts and data. Hundreds of new exercises added and updated continuing exercises with the most recent data.

Updated TI Tips. Easy-to-read “TI Tips” now show students how to use TI-84 Plus statistics functions with the StatWizard operating system.

Streamlined design. A new design that clarifies the purpose of each text element. The major theme of each chapter is now easier to follow.